Show thac SEA THEIR BEAT maritime police who preserve erve order in the north sea iea tn the middle of the north sea would perhaps be a curious place to find a policeman on luty duty yet some hund hundreds milt are appointed to keep order there and nt at othet other places where their services are likely to be required great britain belgium Be gium france germany and holland each keep a 3 certain number of cruisers upon the high seas for this purpose whilst they are empowered to prosecute or if necessary yi take into custody any ny vessel belonging lug to either of these countries in addition each cruiser carries camps a judge in the shape of an officer in charge who can try the case and inflict a penalty providing the defendant consents to his trying the case beforehand and whose decision can only be altered by the court of appen appeals Is allowing a ship to wander about the high seas without keeping proper control over her is far more common than might be expected the man whose watch it is may be asleep and it is often a difficult matter to prove that a large percentage of the collisions that occur are directly due to this cause the elbe disaster is only one example of the many awful results of carel careless watching at ching however the eagle eye of the sea bobby by his bullseye bulls eye lan ian tern which in the case of the marii maritime timi time policeman is a powerful searchlight is so keenly on the alert for cases of this sort and such a heavy fine is in flicked on conviction that charges of wandering without tv proper control are every year becoming less frequent |